Player Watch: Erik Lamela

[muppetman]

 

[Archibald-CPH]

Fod park the bus teams against us imagine a line up of

Lloris
Aurier Toby. Jan. Davies
Dembele eriksen
Son. Lamela. Alli
Kane

We don't need 3 centre backs against teams like Swansea yesterday. Give eriksen the floating free roll in the middle to come and get on to the ball from deep like he enjoys doing and let him be our deep lying playmaker.
Son creating havoc running at the defence, lamela threading balls through to the runners and Kane and Dele on the right where he seems to default to where he plays on the park at the moment.

This!!!

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

We need him and Rose back ASAP... but the club are really letting us down with the injury updates.... like Wanyama now too - just how long could he be out with a knee injury (like Rose got)

Read the injury updates on all 3 of them in team news Friday, and then read last week update, and the one before the international break - they all say the same thing.

Rose is still in line to return to training in a few weeks - well it said that 3 weeks ago and still nothing.

Barca today announced Dembele injury and how long he will be out for, why cant we do this, we must have a shocking medical team!

You make it sound like we have Harold Shipman and Nigel Farage treating and/or quietly disposing of players

 

[Blake Griffin]

Fod park the bus teams against us imagine a line up of

Lloris
Aurier Toby. Jan. Davies
Dembele eriksen
Son. Lamela. Alli
Kane

We don't need 3 centre backs against teams like Swansea yesterday. Give eriksen the floating free roll in the middle to come and get on to the ball from deep like he enjoys doing and let him be our deep lying playmaker.
Son creating havoc running at the defence, lamela threading balls through to the runners and Kane and Dele on the right where he seems to default to where he plays on the park at the moment.

at some point i'd quite like to see us go back to the 4141 that ripped city apart at home last season, so something like this:

lloris
aurier alderweireld vertonghen davies
wanyama
lamela eriksen alli son
kane
​

obviously depends on lamela getting back and getting back to the player of a year ago though, that or if edwards can emerge as an option this season.

 

[punkisback]

at some point i'd quite like to see us go back to the 4141 that ripped city apart at home last season, so something like this:

lloris
aurier alderweireld vertonghen davies
wanyama
lamela eriksen alli son
kane
​

obviously depends on lamela getting back and getting back to the player of a year ago though, that or if edwards can emerge as an option this season.

This should be what we should be playing not 5 defenders and a CB in Midfield. All those attackers work hard, can tackle and are agile; you don't need to play units in midfield all the time.

 

[glacierSpurs]

at some point i'd quite like to see us go back to the 4141 that ripped city apart at home last season, so something like this:

lloris
aurier alderweireld vertonghen davies
wanyama
lamela eriksen alli son
kane
​

obviously depends on lamela getting back and getting back to the player of a year ago though, that or if edwards can emerge as an option this season.

And I really feel given Lamela back, the four of them behind Kane give us the most varied and balanced attacking threat we can possibly have..

 

[Teemu]

This should be what we should be playing not 5 defenders and a CB in Midfield. All those attackers work hard, can tackle and are agile; you don't need to play units in midfield all the time.

Eriksen arguably not known for his tackling ability

 

[punkisback]

Eriksen arguably not known for his tackling ability

You'd be surprised how many he wins back, doesn't have to be a sliding challenge but he recovers the ball well.

 

[muppetman]

http://www.squawka.com/news/erik-la...us-title-challenge/991934#ZVYJBvihjAZYwTTl.97

 

[ralvy]

http://www.squawka.com/news/erik-la...us-title-challenge/991934#ZVYJBvihjAZYwTTl.97

Shit man, very irresponsible for you to share that link without putting a warning that opening it might cause sudden rage outbursts and mild strokes over users like Francis.

 

[Johnny J]

http://www.squawka.com/news/erik-la...us-title-challenge/991934#ZVYJBvihjAZYwTTl.97

Great stats:

"Despite being out of action for almost a whole year, Lamela still ranks second in Spurs’ squad for interceptions made in the final third (28) since 2014-15, fourth for tackles won (30) and fourth for fouls committed (45)."

 

[DCSPUR]

he was looking so good when he got injured....feel bad for the fellow

 

[Shadydan]

Really miss this guy

 

[Lemon]

Fod park the bus teams against us imagine a line up of

Lloris
Aurier Toby. Jan. Davies
Dembele eriksen
Son. Lamela. Alli
Kane

We don't need 3 centre backs against teams like Swansea yesterday. Give eriksen the floating free roll in the middle to come and get on to the ball from deep like he enjoys doing and let him be our deep lying playmaker.
Son creating havoc running at the defence, lamela threading balls through to the runners and Kane and Dele on the right where he seems to default to where he plays on the park at the moment.

Agree, but even think we could go further:

Lloris
Aurier Toby. Jan. Davies
Dele Eriksen
Lamela Kane Son
Llorente

To start getting results IMO we should go full attack to create some impetus. The above is the heaviest goal scoring front 6 we have.

 

[kaz Hirai]

Love Erik and he's been my adopted son always, it's easy to crave his type of display after the lackluster stuff from dembele, Alli and sissoko so far but I'd say not to expect much from him for awhile.
He's gonna be rusty as fuck

 

[neilp]

Agree, but even think we could go further:

Lloris
Aurier Toby. Jan. Davies
Dele Eriksen
Lamela Kane Son
Llorente

To start getting results IMO we should go full attack to create some impetus. The above is the heaviest goal scoring front 6 we have.

And back four probably

 

[Lemon]

And back four probably

Thought about that, but Sanchez scored quite a few at Ajax, maybe replacing Jan in that sense.

 

[Blackrat1299]

Looking forward to having him back but imagine he will be rusty as hell! If fit a league cup run will be usefull.

I don't think he will be rusty, I think they use titanium on hips now.

 

[Shadydan]

Agree, but even think we could go further:

Lloris
Aurier Toby. Jan. Davies
Dele Eriksen
Lamela Kane Son
Llorente

To start getting results IMO we should go full attack to create some impetus. The above is the heaviest goal scoring front 6 we have.

How do we win the ball back?

 

[Hengy1]

How do we win the ball back?

We don't we just keep it